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SLaM Recovery College Wellbeing Webinars for All 1st June – 2nd July

26/5/2021

Hello Students, Colleagues and Friends,

All these sessions are, as always, available to everyone, free of charge. You don’t need to have any connection at all to the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. We just ask that you answer a few questions and let us know which sessions you’d like to be a part of, using one of the registration forms links below, and we’ll then send you links to the webinars you’ve chosen.

The majority of our webinars are run as Live Events on the Microsoft Teams platform, meaning that you can join anonymously and will be neither seen nor heard. Instead, you interact by typing questions and comments into a Q&A panel. Occasionally we will run a course in a Meetings format for a limited group of students, where you will be seen and heard, but these will be clearly identified as such.

If you can't make a particular live event you can still enrol and use the link we'll send you to watch a recording later.

The Comedy School Improvisation Courses

N.B. Only available for students with a connection to SLaM - either as a service user, a carer, a volunteer, a peer supporter, an Involvement Register member, or a member of staff.

There is no better place for laughing and learning at the same time than The Comedy School Improvisation Course, specifically designed for SLaM Recovery College. We’re running this seven-week course twice in June, July and August.

For more details, dates, and how to register (for these Improv courses only), please read or download this pdf:
https://www.scribd.com/document/509267675/Improvisation-Courses-from-the-Comedy-School

Or go straight to the Expression of Interest form:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=SuTPoS5olUqOctA7m1iHqjpd3n-l3AxAj-8hQpHMfNlUN0NZOTRWVVVCSk5QQ1Q1SUFTSk1XOVNRUC4u

SLaM Recovery College Courses in June

For descriptions of all these courses, please read or download this pdf:
https://www.scribd.com/document/509380325/SLaM-RC-June-Course-Descriptions

Please scroll down to the end of this post for your registration links for all of these sessions.

Parks, Walks and Walking Meditation
Part 1 | 10:30am-11:30am | Thursday 27th May
Part 2 | 10:30am-11:30am | Thursday 3rd June
Part 3 | 10:30am-11:30am | Thursday 10th June

Communication and Active Listening
Part 1 | 2pm-3:30pm | Tuesday 1st June
Part 2 | 2pm-3:30pm | Tuesday 8th June

Emotional Intelligence: the path to emotional serenity
Part 1| 2pm-3.30pm | Thursday 3rd June
Part 2 | 2pm-3.30pm | Thursday 10th June
Part 3 | 2pm-3.30pm | Thursday 17th June
Part 4 | 2pm-3.30pm | Thursday 24th June
Part 5 | 2pm-3.30pm | Thursday 1st July

Introduction to Beth

This is a stand-alone session, repeated twice in June, so there’s no need to register for more than one.

Introduction to Beth | 11am-12noon | Tuesday 8th June
Introduction to Beth | 11am-12noon | Tuesday 22nd June

Facts and Guidance for Carers | 2:30pm-3:30pm | Wednesday 9th June

Tree of Life
N.B. Only available for students with a connection to SLaM - either as a service user, a carer, a volunteer, a peer supporter, an Involvement Register member, or a member of staff.

This is a stand-alone session, repeated twice in June, so there’s no need to register for more than one.

Tree of Life | 10am-12noon | Friday 11th June
Tree of Life | 10am-12noon | Friday 18th June

Introduction to Coaching Skills
Part 1 | 1:30pm-2:30pm | Monday 14th June
Part 2 | 1:30pm-2:30pm | Tuesday 15th June
Part 3 | 1:30pm-2:30pm | Thursday 17th June
Part 4 | 1:30pm-2:30pm | Friday 18th June

Understanding Psychosis
Part 1 | 11:30am-12:30pm | Tuesday 15th June
Part 2 | 11:30am-12:30pm | Tuesday 22nd June
Part 3 | 11:30am-12:30pm | Tuesday 29th June

Bereavement: coming to terms with loss | 1:30pm-2:30pm | Tuesday 15th June

Understanding and Managing Panic Attacks
Part 1 | 2:30pm-3:45pm | Wednesday 16th June
Part 2 | 2:30pm-3:45pm | Wednesday 23rd June

Creativity and Wellbeing | 11am-12noon | Wednesday 23rd June

Alcohol: friend or foe? | 2pm-3:30pm | Friday 25th June

Let’s Talk About Tobacco | 11am-12noon | Wednesday 30th June

FIRST TIME REGISTRATION, if you haven’t signed up to a webinar with us before:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=SuTPoS5olUqOctA7m1iHqjpd3n-l3AxAj-8hQpHMfNlURVg3TlVGRUdUUjYzSEJWR08yOTVONkRCRC4u

RETURNING STUDENTS REGISTRATION, if you have already signed up to a webinar with us before:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=SuTPoS5olUqOctA7m1iHqjpd3n-l3AxAj-8hQpHMfNlUMllYRzQ3N1dPNFY3RE8zQTJFQUFWTVAwWS4u

Please feel free to share this offer of free-to-view webinars with anyone who you think might benefit.

Visit our COVID_19 resources page for details of crisis support, covid-19 advice, online learning, online activities, and staying connected: https://www.slamrecoverycollege.co.uk/covid-19-resources.html

Although these courses are free, SLaM Recovery College operates with charity funding. If you feel these webinars help you, and you are able to, please consider making a donation to the brilliant Maudsley Charity which supports innovative wellbeing projects in our communities.

There is, of course, no obligation to make a donation.

This is the link to make a donation if you’d like to:
https://maudsleycharity.org/support-us/make-a-donation/

Announcing SLaM Recovery College’s New BAME Project

12/5/2021

SLaM Recovery College’s New BAME* Project
[* Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic]

Although this project was initially inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, it is not aligned to or affiliated with any political aims of this or any other organisation. The purpose is to use education to expose and address ongoing systemic failings throughout society, to raise awareness, and to discover and explore what might most help us all move forward together.

The general aim of this set of courses is to re-programme thinking around racism. We do this by providing a reflective space where it is possible to explore the lived experience of racism along with its many social and psychological impacts on BAME people, non-BAME people and on society as a whole.

This space is provided to raise questions and discover solutions that have a positive impact on the lived experience of BAME people within our culture. Our intention is to help facilitate understanding and growth in those parts of our culture where discrimination, injustice and persecution of people perceived to be different still persist.

The first course, starting next Tuesday 18th May, is Being an Ally (see below). The other planned courses in this project are:

Traumas of Racism
Uncomfortable Truths
Colourism

Being an Ally

This four-unit course uses Yvonne Coghill’s 7 A’s of Allyship as a model to explore the internal and external work of allyship.

Allyship is about building relationships of trust, consistency, and accountability with marginalised individuals and/or groups of people. Although you might not be a member of an underinvested or oppressed group, you can support them and make the effort to understand their struggle and use your voice alongside theirs.

The sessions are structured as an hour-long webinar followed by a 10-minute break, then a discussion session in small groups of 5 people. Each group will be facilitated by someone who has been involved in developing the course for the last six months.

These sessions will be in the Microsoft Teams Meeting format, which means we will be able to see and hear each other, have group discussions, and share experiences and helpful tips. Once you have registered your interest in the course, we will ask you to complete an online participation agreement. These sessions won’t be recorded, so you’ll need to take part live. There are 30 places available on this course. If more than that apply, we will choose by lottery.

Unit 1:  what is an ally, and why are they needed? | 12noon-2:30pm | Tuesday 18th May
Unit 2: making whiteness visible (bringing privilege and fragility into view) | 12noon-2:30pm | Friday 21st May
Unit 3: seeing the person (rehumanising interracial communication) | 12noon-2:30pm | Tuesday 25th May
Unit 4: starting work (allyship into action) | 12noon-2:30pm | Friday 28th May

How to Register
For this course and for others the college is running in May:

FIRST TIME REGISTRATION, if you haven’t signed up to a webinar with us before:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=SuTPoS5olUqOctA7m1iHqjpd3n-l3AxAj-8hQpHMfNlUMVlUQzEzNlBOT0NUNTU3UVVPQ1pHWTdFOS4u

RETURNING STUDENTS REGISTRATION, if you have already signed up to a webinar with us before:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=SuTPoS5olUqOctA7m1iHqjpd3n-l3AxAj-8hQpHMfNlUODNFUlAxQ0dIUTZBUkpCVDRBS0ZaTksxRS4u

With very best wishes,

The team at South London and Maudsley Recovery College

Although these courses are free, SLaM Recovery College operates with charity funding. If you feel these webinars help you, and you are able to, please consider making a donation to the brilliant Maudsley Charity which supports innovative wellbeing projects in our communities. There is, of course, no obligation to make a donation.

This is the link to make a donation if you’d like to:
https://maudsleycharity.org/support-us/make-a-donation/

SLaM Recovery College Wellbeing Webinars for All 1st June – 2nd July

Announcing SLaM Recovery College’s New BAME Project

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